Category: Turkey
-
Traveling from Turkey to Iran: Iranian visa information
Our personal experience crossing the border from Turkey to Iran, and getting Iran Visas in Turkey.
-
A Few More Photos from Mount Nemrut (Nemrut Dağı)
Who says every post has to be a long-winded rant? Here’s a few pictures I took on top of a mountain when we were in Turkey!
-
Crossing the border from Turkey into Iran
February 2011 Update: If you are looking for info on the visas and border crossing itself, Chris has posted about that here. We were both still sick, but nonetheless on Wednesday, June 16th we bought bus tickets from Van, Turkey to Orumiyeh, Iran. I must admit that deep inside me I was a little uncertain.…
-
Diyarbakır (Amed), home of the Kurds
We had one of our best single days in Diyarbakır, thanks to the generosity and eagerness of one man to share his city and culture with two total strangers. We met Muzaffer while walking down the street, in what seemed at first like just another friendly “where are you from?” It’s a common enough thing…
-
Feeling homesick after 5.5 months of travel
For the first time in my life I have had people ask me where I’m from and when I say Canada they shrug their shoulders and say, “Where’s that?â€Â After 5.5 months I am officially homesick. Although some of my homesickness might be brought on by the fact that my entire body is aching, my…
-
Laura wants to share lots of random photos with you
Currently Chris and I are in a hotel room in Diyarbakir in eastern Turkey. I thought I could post a bunch of random photos for you guys to enjoy. They cover all sorts of different things and times during our trip, including our Sahara trek, Italy, Morocco and Turkey. We plan on heading into Iran in…
-
Second Home Hostel, Istanbul, Turkey
As promised, here is the video we created over the past few days for our pals at Second Home Hostel in Istanbul. It still amazes me that it can take over 30 hours of work to produce a video less than two minutes long. Hope you enjoy it. Attentive readers may recognize the beautiful female…
-
Finally heading east from Istanbul
Sorry for the lack of updates lately. We’ve been working our butts off on a video for the Second Home Hostel here in Istanbul. If the dang thing ever uploads properly, you’ll see it soon enough. In about three hours, we’ll be leaving on a 26-hour train to a city in Eastern Turkey called Malatya.…
-
Istanbul Eats Photo Competition
Hey! If you’re reading this, then I’ll assume you’ve been digging the blog. How about sharing the love back to us. One of the photos I took in February and posted on this blog is a finalist in a photo contest over at IstanbulEats.com. Please vote for my pic here, by emailing istanbuleats3@gmail.com with the subject heading “Turkey Vote…
-
Antalya Museum and our intro to CouchSurfing
At first Antalya looked like many of the larger cities in Turkey, row after row of off-white or peach apartment buildings all modelled after the same design. But once we started walking around, the beauty of the city was apparent. The city is located on the Mediterranean ocean. It’s natural fortifications resemble those of Dieppe in France. The…
-
A Minor Detour: Morocco, Madrid, Romania…
Hi all, I figured we owed you all a proper update outlining our plans for the next little while, aside from the cryptic reference to detours and cheap flights in the last post. On April 26 we will be leaving Lanciano, heading north on a train to a town near Milan called Piacenza. Laura’s friend…
-
Cappadocia is Turkey’s version of Canada’s badlands without the dinosaur bones
Here are some older photos from the landscape of central Turkey in the area known as Cappadocia. I’m also just finishing a post about Lanciano for you before I convince Chris and my girl friend to retire to the apartment to watch more of the “Sopranos”.